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Oculus VR, ZeniMax dispute heads to court ahead of Facebook acquisition |
May 22, 2014
The dispute between Oculus VR, a wearable virtual reality technology company that Facebook is acquiring, and ZeniMax Media reached court Wednesday.ZeniMax is suing Oculus for exploiting commercially intellectual property the games publisher allegedly shared under a non-disclosure agreement with Oculus, which enabled it to improve on its “crude prototype” of a virtual reality headset.Facebook said in March it had reached a deal to buy the developer of the Oculus Rift headset for about US$2 billion.The non-disclosure agreement expressly provides that ZeniMax’s intellectual property cannot be disclosed to or used by any third parties without its prior written approval, according to the complaint.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
Link: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2158300/oculus-vr-zenimax-dispute-heads-to-court-ahead-of-facebook-acquisition.html#tk.rss_all
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